Awards Received by NIST Employees

For o utstanding service in support of NIST scientists.

For pioneering contributions to interpretation of polarized reflection and scattering from rough and contaminated surfaces.

Gorshkov was honored for his research on large, interacting quantum systems, which has practical applications for quantum computers, quantum networks and quantum sensing technologies.

​This award recognizes meritorious achievement by members of the IAFSS who are early in their career and have contributed a body of work that is of significance to fire safety science. The award includes a grant of $4,000 (US), a plaque, and free...

For the development of ultrasensitive multi-pixel transition-edge-sensor calorimeters and spectrometers for applications in astrophysics, nuclear security, materials analysis, and metrology.

​President of the ASCE Geo-Institute. The Geo-Institute has over 13,000 members and is represents geoprofessionals and the geo-industry. It was created by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1996 as one of ASCE's nine specialty Institutes.

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 2022 Leadership and Service Awards recipients are recognized for their significant contributions to national and international standardization activities, as well as an ongoing commitment to their...

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 2022 Leadership and Service Awards recipients are recognized for their significant contributions to national and international standardization activities, as well as an ongoing commitment to their...

Kathryn Beers is being awarded the Mark Scholar Award by the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry (POLY) in recognition of her excellence in in basic or applied research and leadership in polymer science. She will be honored by a half-day invited...

Andrea is an exceptional scientist whose work has contributed to overcoming one of the main shortcomings of atomic force microscopy (AFM) – its inability to conclusively identify chemical species in the nanoscale resolution maps the AFM provides.

In September 2022, NIST's Robert Lipman received the Bryan K. Martin Technical Excellence Award, which is presented annually by PDES, Inc., an industry, government, and university consortium committed to standardizing data exchange in manufacturing...

The prize committee selected the winners “for the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.”

A. J. Fleisher's work has led to advances in optical measurements of isotopic composition, including stable carbon isotope ratios and radiocarbon abundances in carbon dioxide (CO 2). Their innovative approaches have opened new avenues for exploration...

The NIST Image Group is being nominated for the Service and Leadership team award for their substantive guidance and leadership to the federal identity community. Many of the group’s subject matter experts (SME’s) have been with the team for 15 years...

Category: IT/Electrical Developers: Los Alamos National Laboratory Co-Developers: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), University of Colorado – Boulder United States Product Description: SOFIA (Spectrometer Optimized for Facility...

Dr. Raghu Kacker was chosen as a Fellow in recognition of outstanding contributions in enabling the field of combinatorial testing to become a mainstream tool in measurement science and software engineering. In 1997, the Mars Pathfinder began...

Dr. Kamran Sayrafian was chosen as a Fellow in recognition of outstanding contributions to mathematical and computational modeling of Body Area Networks. Dr. Kamran Sayrafian is a pioneer in the field of Body Area Networks (BAN), a revolutionary...

“For leadership, and vision to the neutron scattering community as scientist, mentor, instrument developer, and facility steward."

For outstanding leadership and technical contributions to standardization of measurements of light sources and lighting products.

Jun Ye's research topic is Quantum System Scaling and Advantage for Fundamental and Applied Science.

Ron is an expert in absorbed dose metrology based on water calorimetry, critical for the direct realization of the SI unit of dose, the gray (Gy), to which all clinical absorbed dose measurements for radiation beam therapy are traceable.

For service to the neutron scattering community through his leadership in the development of scientific software for small-angle scattering.

On organizing a national school on solving magnetic structures with neutron diffraction and new AI data collection and analysis methods.

"Analysis of Engineered Nafion Surfaces via Neutron Reflectometry" https://www.mrs.org/acns-2022